I'm not one to critique much, but I just put together my first pronghorn (second mount ever) and by the reference photos I have, your eyes look sunken in on the head on pic. You need to tuck your bottom lip more and the little black line at the bottom of the nose should be tucked to where you can't see the line. The hair there should be touching. That's the stuff that I see right off hand. If you get a chance, go to my topic "First Pronghorn.....Please Critique (this is the good posting )" . Let me know if there's anything you see right off hand. Thanks, Paul

It looks good for your first. I see a couple of things off. 1 the hair above the nose seems twisted to the right. 2 the whole face looks like it is pulled too far back. 3 the ears are way too back on the head. 4 the cheek patches (black part) should be on the side of the face not on the neck. 4 the sepetrum (little skin bettween nose and lip should be hair to hair not an open black line. They are sure tough little farts.

thanks for the tips, I tried to put the ears in line with the eyes and nose like george says, I built up the cheeks on the form with clay to make the cheek patches flare out more, I had to alter the form and make the neck smaller so I'm not sure if the head part wasn't a little big.

Here is my reference I used for the black patch, it looks like it is behing the jawbone like mine, don't want to poo poo your advice just showing the reference I used

If he is still wet pull every thing forward. They are forgiving use a big fork and just slide it. also when you squeeze the nose together pin that small hole on the nose and super glue. I wish I cold show you what I mean.

Look at your reference and then compare your eye to that. You should see that your eye shape is off. The highest part of the top lid should be about 1/3 back ffrom the front of the eye. It looks like yours is to far back.

agree you set your eyes too far in plus they are the wrong shape they should be egg shaped. Whats with the pins I guess what ever works for ya good hide past and thinning will hold up instead of all the little holes.e

I thinned it down good and all but since it is my first gamehead ever, and second mount ever I didn't know the pins were unnessecary, thats why I'm on here.

The eyes were set in the pre shaped holes in the form, I also put a straight edge along the face and the eye just touched it like I read to do. Do you think I would have been better off sticking the eyes out farther or is it due to having too much clay around them?

I'm trying to figure out what is wrong with my eye shape, it was said they should be egg shaped, and the highest point of the upper lid should be 1/3 back, it looks to me like both of those things are the case, am I missing something?

JWarr, i havent commented, because even though i have been doing this for 6 years, i just did another first for me in a pronghorn, and i can tell you that 1. your eyeshape doesnt match from side to side, 2. there is ALOT of resculpting you have to do with clay once you get the skull plate set to make the eye orbits the right shape for the eyes to set properly on the form, you probably picked one of the hardest "firsts" to do for yourself in this animal. Dont beat yourself up over it, just chalk it up to a learning experience and get yourself another one to do in the future, that way you can learn from what every one on here has told you and use it on the next one.

thanks for the advice everyone. I'm happy as can be with this being my first game head. I've been looking over alot of mounts the past few months and people I know have paid big bucks for ones that look worse than my beginner hack jobs ;D Just want to get the skinny so I can start progressing to higher quality

Too much lower lip exposed, 1/2" tops; septum hair to hair, looks to me like the form muzzle is too long for the cape - if you had to shave the neck down maybe you had the wrong form?
A shorter muzzle would have let everything lay a little more relaxed, looks really tight?
On your eyes, drop the rear corner just below the pupil, then you can sag the lower lid down a little and the upper lid will tail off more, giving the shape you want.
It looks like you have too much clay under the eye, work some of it down the cheek and move the lower lid in onto the form, that will expose more glass and get rid of that sunken look.
Put something on those horns!
Either Scott's liquid gold or a 50/50 turpentine clean motor oil mixture - Scott's smells better.

Thanks Mike, some good tips there. My problem was I measured over the hair before I even caped the goat. When it came time to mount I had to take 1-2" out of the neck to fit the cape. I wouldn't be suprised if the face was too long. It didn't seem overly tight when I put it on but the face was probably alittle big for the cape.

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